Reason - Rebirth and ten times more (Propellerheads Reason)

Member Name: Davephall

Product:	Propellerheads Reason
Date:	07/02/01 (1062 review reads)
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Advantages: Powerful, Infinitely expandable, amazing sounds

Disadvantages: Very CPU hungry

I notice by reading some rebirth reviews that I’m not the only one that has wasted many an hour twiddling around with rebirth, it has an instant appeal and anyone with a good idea for a tune can make it happen with little classic training.

Not in any way wanting to put down the classic Roland threesome (TB-303, DR-808, DR-909), but the potential for sound creation leaves a lot to be desired, the most that can be get out of Rebirth is an acid lead, bassline, and a simple analogue drum line.

Reason, the new big brother of rebirth, takes the idea of software synth recreation and takes it much further. Dropping the emulation of classic synths for totally new creations, reason takes the form of a virtual rack of a potentially limitless number of modules.

The modules included are a vastly tweakable drum machine, a ReCycle loop player, effects units, polyphonic analogue synth, sampler, rebirth style pattern sequencer, and an input device for running alongside rebirth. This is all controlled by a simple sequencer and a fully functional mixer.

In operation, all of the modules have beautiful filters and other knobs to tweak, and the sounds are every bit as authentic as rebirth, if not more.

Although more expensive than rebirth, this new software is infinitely more powerful, and is getting close to the fabled all in one music package that manufacturers have been talking about for years.

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